Lena Yarinkura is one of Arnhem Land’s most innovative practitioners, creating the completely new idiom of Aboriginal fibre sculpture in the 1990s. Learning the art of weaving from her mother, renowned artist Lena Djamarrayku, Yarinkura was soon followed by her daughters and other female relatives in founding the first school of Rembarrnga figurative fibre weaving. Many of Yarinkura’s animal sculptures, including dogs, bush pigs, bandicoots and quolls, refer to her Dreamings but often include references to her own pets, or to animals she has observed in the bush.